Virtue Is Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtue Is Knowledge write by Lorraine Smith Pangle. This book was released on 2014-05-23. Virtue Is Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature them most prominently—the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, and Laws—and reveals the truth at the core of these seemingly strange claims. She argues that Socrates was more aware of the complex causes of human action and of the power of irrational passions than a cursory reading might suggest. Pangle’s perceptive analyses reveal that many of Socrates’s teachings in fact explore the factors that make it difficult for humans to be the rational creatures that he at first seems to claim. Also critical to Pangle’s reading is her emphasis on the political dimensions of the dialogues. Underlying many of the paradoxes, she shows, is a distinction between philosophic and civic virtue that is critical to understanding them. Ultimately, Pangle offers a radically unconventional way of reading Socrates’s views of human excellence: Virtue is not knowledge in any ordinary sense, but true virtue is nothing other than wisdom.
Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge
Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge write by Maryanne Cline Horowitz. This book was released on 1998. Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom. This copiously illustrated investigation begins by examining the intellectual world of the Stoics, who originated the phrases "seeds of virtue" and "seeds of knowledge." Tracing the interrelated history of the Stoic cluster of epistemological images for natural law within humanity--reason, common notions, sparks, and seeds--Horowitz presents the distinctive versions within the competing movements of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, Augustinian and Thomist theologies, Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, and Erasmian Catholicism and the Lutheran Reformation. She demonstrates how the Ciceronian and Senecan analogies between horticulture and culture--basic to Italian Renaissance humanists, artists, and neo- Platonists--influence the emergence of emblems and essays among participants in the Northern Renaissance neo-Stoic movement. The Stoic metaphor is still visible today in ecumenical movements that use vegetative language to encourage the growth of shared values and to promote civic virtues: organizations disseminate information on nipping bad habits in the bud and on turning a new leaf. The author's evidence of illustrated pages from medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts will stimulate contemporary readers to evaluate her discovery of "the premodern scientific paradigm that the mind develops like a plant."
Virtue and Knowledge
Virtue and Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtue and Knowledge write by William J. Prior. This book was released on 2016-08-19. Virtue and Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.
Virtues of the Mind
Virtues of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtues of the Mind write by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. This book was released on 1996-09-13. Virtues of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.
Achieving Knowledge
Achieving Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Achieving Knowledge write by John Greco. This book was released on 2010-04-22. Achieving Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that knowledge is a kind of achievement, exploring questions of what it is and what kind of value it has.
